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  1. The next big internet failure on MP3.com Going Public · · Score: 1

    Heh, their site is so ugly, and their cataloging system is *so* bad, they are almost assured of falling flat on their face.

    Of course, I said the same thing about mirabilis.

  2. A different problem: compiling your own tools on Ask Slashdot: Creating a "Personal" Linux Distribution? · · Score: 1

    I have been having a different itch lately. I want to compile all of my own tools (ls, grep, find, etc). The current set of tools sucks, when I do bigish file system things, I always wind up with directories that I can't list or delete.

    I want to do 'grep regexp `find /` and have it work.

  3. Standing Armies on Australian Government and Cracking · · Score: 1

    Where I live, the Sheriff is elected.

  4. Celery 450 all the way on Tom's Hardware benchmarks K6-3 and PIII · · Score: 1

    Look, WC is a company of computer geeks for computer geeks. In a company run by, say, bankers, if your computers fail and someone finds out that you were running them at 150% of their specified clock speed and at the same time invalidating the warranty, some banker is going to find out about it and fire your ass.

  5. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm on Non-Vapor Quad 400 PowerPC Boxes! · · Score: 1

    This is not a desktop machine. This is the kind of thing that goes in space shuttles and PBX equipment.

  6. Timezone? on Mega Bandwidth Acheived · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but /. isn't out there, it's in here.

  7. Ad reloading on Free the Open Source · · Score: 1

    Their server would probably be better off if it didn't reload their advertisements every 5 seconds.


  8. Gortek and The Microchips on Ask Slashdot: Software for Youngsters? · · Score: 1

    I still have my copy of Gortek and The Microchips for C-64 (on cassette). Taught me the basics of conditional looping, arithmetic, and some BASIC cruft. Also had a fun game that taught me to touch-type.

    If you want your kid to learn computers and programming, give him a stock Linux box set up to access the internet, give him the root password, back up the root partition, and cut him loose with some introductory programming books.

  9. Reading linux source hardly an expert makes on Community Based Linux certification · · Score: 1

    If it's a common sense approach, WTF would I buy the book?

  10. They'll never win that case on MS: Sued, Falsifies Evidence and Contradicts self · · Score: 1

    The EULA explicitly states that uSoft will not be liable for any damages arising from the use of the product, including the failure to perform according to the product's own documentation.

  11. FBCON SUCKS(??) on Introducing Linux 2.2 · · Score: 1

    You may certainly keep your text-mode console. I will take my 1024x768 text console with 8000 lines of scrollback.

    To each his own, I guess.

  12. A Mac will do that to you - Troll on Descent Into Linux (Part Two) · · Score: 1

    Lamont,

    I guess that you have not worked on the imac yet, then. The two memory slots are above and below the processor module. To access one of them, you must physically remove the CPU.

  13. Had to download the whole thing on Linux 2.2.0pre9 = 2.2.0 Final (Almost) · · Score: 1

    patch-2.2.0-pre9 did not work for me. The patch applied without complaint, but then the make dep failed b/c the ner irlpt directory does not exist. Had to waste bw and d/l the whole thing.

  14. Memo to foreigners on DES-III Completed · · Score: 1

    Dear other countries:

    Your data which is encrypted with US exported cryto software is now safe for 22 hours. If your arch-rival has >>US$50,000, your data is safe for much less that that.

    Regards,
    United States NSA



  15. Awesome anti-MS comment on GnuPGP article on CNN · · Score: 1

    "GnuPG could easily be adapted for Windows, Koch said, but 'I'm not going to do that for free. I'm not that interested in Windows,' he said.

    Classic.